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Edited by Hooligantuan:
3/1/2015 8:05:19 PM
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I Just Noticed, in Ishtar Academy... [Hey, Look - No Hands! Thread]
So, the mission, "The Archive" - when you have to go into the Ishtar academy to secure data and Grayliks infiltrates, leading to a fight.
You pass some skeletons when you initially enter the doors - the ones locked with the Radial A encryption, remember?
Well, years of Fallout have taught me to pay attention to the objects, particularly skeletons, that are placed in a scene, because they often tell a story. The particular story here I wasn't sure about - there are some skeletons strewn about, one looks like the decedent was sitting at the time, another couple are entwined on the floor, another lies clean, facing upward to the ceiling.
I figured they might be research crew or engineers or some such, locked in there when The Golden Age collapsed suddenly around them.
But then I noticed [i]none of them have hands or feet[/i].
That would paint a far more grisly picture, but I'm having trouble putting together a plausible narrative. If the archive were infiltrated, why not just kill them? Clearly they had time to themselves after being maimed, left to bleed out. It's unlikely they did this to themselves, since one would expect a tool nearby and at least one hand among them.
Or, ya know, someone was a little sloppy with the geometry assets and just forgot to toss some hands and feet in there. But I like to think this was intentional.
Any ideas?
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360 and ps3 couldn't handle the particle effects. It's probably also why you can't pick up enemy guns, ride enemy vehicles, fly, shoot down dropships, and a host of other 9 year old console standards dragging down the experience.
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2 RepliesPerhaps they dismembered them for food? I've heard stories in which people have done that...
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If I remember the ride along correctly, those people were locked in and died. Why the hands and feet are missing is strange.
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$60 for hands & feet
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14 RepliesI think the far more compelling similarities lie between the massive symbol on the floor of that same room and the symbol on Eris' ship and scattered around the house of Winter's territory. The circle with the four outstretched arms. They're practically the same symbols. The symbol on the Universal remote is all over cabal buildings in PvP and PvE and there are similarities between the Mythoclast and structures in the vault. There's also the Pocket Infinity symbol plastered all over Rasputin's bunker. I think the only secret there is that Bungie loves to make everything seem interconnected. Just look at the Thorn/Bad Juju symbols and the dark below DLC. The 'mark of the devourer' is everywhere and we still don't know what that is.
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Maybe they cut off their hands and feet so the fallen couldn't torture them to get secrets from the lab equipment
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Captains? Don't captains rip vandals lower set of arms off... Which then makes them dregs lol? Makes captains like dead body parts xD
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Marry the doors are all fingerprint scanners
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+ 32 hands/feet collected
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One of the last survivors went insane, collected their feet and hands for some insane reason... now I wonder if those are sitting somewhere else inside the academy?
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Watching the Venus stream 2 weeks back, Blake Low said how people were trapped on there and ate their own/others limbs for food. Also interesting is one of the doors leading there is singed off and on the ground. He said it's how the fallen infiltrated the academy. The design/world crews did amazing jobs.
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Interesting thought, man. Hadn't given it much attention until you mentioned it. Gonna go check that shit out. If only we had the story that was supposed to be in the game...
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4 RepliesIt's also extremely eerie to walk into that room and see two skeletons locked in a hug while staring into each other's eyes. Whatever happened in that room, it was horrific...
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Personally its probably just a time efficiency thing on bungies part: "what can we not model to save time for more important stuff? Hands and feet on the skeletons, people will run right by those." But...if it was done intentionally, some cultures throughout history have taken hands/claws/paws as trophies after hunts. Think shark teeth or bear paws...wolf pelts. That sort of thing. The fallen seem like a species that would have a mentality to do that to me.
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1 ReplyHands and feet are in 6th VoG chest.
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The dude from "Saw" caught them
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2 RepliesCarlllllllllllll
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7 RepliesI have a theory- when it says "Hello, Dr Sjin." Isn't that strange? My guess is.. You are Dr. Sjin.
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9 RepliesI was craving hands ok . . . My stomach was making the rumblies, that only hands could satisfy.
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I think it has something to do with this: http://youtu.be/kZUPCB9533Y
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Edited by danicusbra: 2/16/2015 10:14:07 PMNone if the skeletons in destiny have hands or feet lmfao
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Wow nice attention to detail. Twisted but interesting
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4 RepliesThe entrance to the academy is called N/Gen site B A Jurassic park reference to INgen labs infamous site B
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I was just doing that mission the other night, and I stopped to look. It's a perfectly clean research center, except for those dead bodies by the entrance. Watching Pompeii documentaries on Netflix has given me the expertise to discern that bodies laying near an entrance means they're trying to escape. They locked themselves in during the Collapse, and couldn't get out when they needed to. The Fallen have apparently found more than one way to get in, so they could also have been survivors that locked themselves in, but fled to that last exit when the Fallen later broke in elsewhere. Their clothes are also missing, but they could be dust by now.
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Their limbs were cut out with the "rest" of the story.
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Or clothes.
